The term ANAPEST RELATIVE refers to two poetic feet, IAMB and TROCHEE. An IAMB is a two-syllable foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, while a trochee is the opposite, a two-syllable foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Both iambs and trochees are considered anapestic relatives because they both contain an anapest, which is a three-syllable foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.